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Phillies Outright Sean O’Sullivan

By Jeff Todd | July 7, 2015 at 8:26am CDT

The Phillies outrighted right-hander Sean O’Sullivan after last night’s game, the club announced. His roster spot will go to fellow righty Hector Neris.

O’Sullivan, 27, has given up exactly six earned runs in each of his last three starts, including last night’s, thus precipitating the move. He owns a 6.08 earned run mark on the year, with 4.4 K/9 against 2.5 BB/9 over 71 innings.

Of course, O’Sullivan was largely being utilized with the hope that he’d absorb some innings while providing acceptable results. Over parts of six big league seasons, he’s now pitched 302 1/3 innings with a 5.95 ERA. The Philadelphia staff has been collectively terrible, allowing a full third of a run more per regulation ballgame than the next-poorest staff.

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  1. edcl51

    10 years ago

    The fact that O’Sullivan was even on the Phillies is a disgrace

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    • bjtheduck

      10 years ago

      He sure looked terrible against the Brewers.

      Reply
      • edcl51

        10 years ago

        11-23 with an era of 6 in his major league career, including being 1-7 with an era of OVER 6 for the phillies. Nothing more needs to be said

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        • Dock_Elvis

          10 years ago

          I think O’Sullivan has been,awesome! Hes made a major league living with not even marginal talent

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    • Rally Weimaraner

      10 years ago

      O’Sullivan was brought in to sop up some innings not produce good results. It is better for a rebuilding team to be dreadful than mediocre. Right now the Phillies are in first place in the race for the first overall 2016 draft pick. That is exactly where they should be.

      Reply
    • Jimmy 15

      10 years ago

      Disgrace is actually an understatement. As a Phillies fan, It was so demotivating seeing his name in the line-up. You knew it was time to cut him loose when his ERA tied Porcella’s and was approaching Loshe and Masterson level. Yikes!

      This is literally the worst Phillies team that I can remember and we are talking about a franchise that leads all professional sports in losses. Even the Washington Generals feel bad for this team. As Dean Wormer said, “bad, old and overpaid is no way to go through life son.” or something like that.

      Reply
  2. Brixton

    10 years ago

    The writing on the wall is that Aaron Nola is really the only other option the Phillies have, unless they want to fast track Jerome Williams’ rehabit assignment.

    ot: Commenting looks better, just I would really enjoy a way to refresh comments without having to actually refresh the page, kinda of Disqus had it, along with a way to see the replies to my comments without having to actually go back, kinda how Disqus has it

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    • Dock_Elvis

      10 years ago

      The notification is my,biggest request

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      • Jeff Todd

        10 years ago

        When you open a comment box, there’s an option called “manage subscriptions.” That should allow you to receive notifications of replies. As above, please advise if it’s not working.

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        • Dock_Elvis

          10 years ago

          Jeff, has this been refurbished?..after the reboot it was sending me EVERY comment, and not just replies to my own. After Tim’s initial post on the switch I received over 100 emails. I’ll try again.

          Reply
        • El Duderino

          10 years ago

          I’m happy we can up and down vote. Can actually reply to comments via phone too. Just wish it allowed uppercase letters for your name when I had signed up.

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          • Tim Dierkes

            10 years ago

            There should be something in the upper right corner showing that you’re logged in, you can go there and change the display name.

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            • El Duderino

              10 years ago

              Thanks!

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    • Bob M.

      10 years ago

      There is no point in starting the clock. Just run out the latest teams DFA until September.

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      • Brixton

        10 years ago

        The Phillies are going to be in the same situation next year. They don’t have very much impact talent at the top of the farm.
        Ben Lively is a back-end starter, Eflin, according to Jim Salisbury could be better than Nola and then you have Aaron Alterr. Nothing else is on its way.
        Nola will be here by September 2nd.

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      • Steve Adams

        10 years ago

        There is a point, though, if he’s learned what he’s going to learn in Triple-A. The Phillies can’t hold him down until they’re prepared to contend again, because that probably won’t happen until 2017-18. Sure they could hold him in Triple-A until late April 2016, but the doesn’t necessarily benefit Nola, and they need to sell to the fans that there’s some semblance of hope for the future. Marketing around Nola and Franco is a good start.

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    • Jeff Todd

      10 years ago

      It should be refreshing live now. Let us know if that’s not happening. Seems to be working for me, at least with my own comments.

      Reply
  3. Donnie B

    10 years ago

    Buchanan I think may be ready to come back…

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    • Brixton

      10 years ago

      Buch isn’t hurt and hes starting tonight for AAA.

      God how much I would love to:
      DFA/Option/Trade Dom Brown then call up Brian Bogusevic
      Trade Ben Revere then recall Aaron Altherr
      DFA Kevin Corriea and recall Buchanan
      Trade Cole Hamels and call up Aaron Nola
      Trade Frenchy and call up Jordan Danks
      DFA/Trade Howard and call up Brock Stassi

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  4. Dock_Elvis

    10 years ago

    Sad, I thought maybe this was his breakout season. The season he’d show he was clearly beyond a AA talent where he’d define himself as AAA to stay.

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